“The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.”

— Edith Sitwell

"The Last Gallop"
Façades (1922)
Context: White as a winding sheet,
Masks blowing down the street:
Moscow, Paris London, Vienna — all are undone.
The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

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